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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
         

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.


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